Gold futures rose for a third day in New York, heading for the longest winning streak since Aug. 27, alongside other commodities after China’s manufacturing expanded for the first time in three months.

Copper analysts are getting less bullish for the first time in three weeks after China, the biggest consumer, said it was on “high alert” over inflation and intensified a campaign to control its property market.

At a time when U.S. equities are trading near a record and the dollar is having its best start in three years, commodities will finish this quarter little changed from where they were at the end of 2012.